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Good afternoon. 
It's Friday the 15th of August 

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2025, just after 1:00 and 
welcome to UK Column News. 

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I'm your host, Mike Robinson. 
Joining me by videolink today 

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are journalists and peace 
campaigner Vanessa Bailey and 

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journalist Mark Anderson. 
Today, I'm going to be covering 

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more on the Online Safety Act in
a moment. 

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Will Coleshill. 
We'll have the latest from the 

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Pallona Shimrani inquest. 
Vanessa's going to be reporting 

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on Iran and Syria and Lebanon. 
And Mark will be looking into, 

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well, amongst other things, 
neuro warfare. 

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But we're going to begin today 
with the Trump Putin meeting. 

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Because today, today is the 
Today is the day Trump and Putin

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are to meet. 
Trump's just about to get on Air

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Force One, apparently to fly to 
Alaska. 

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And while the hysteria only 
increases now, yesterday 

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Zelensky came to London for 
hugs. 

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They're there, Vlad. 
It'll be OK, said Starmer. 

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Apparently now at the time, 
Zelensky was doing at the at the

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same time, rather, he was doing 
all he could to make sure that 

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the war continues. 
And as Ashton Rutanzi here is 

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reporting on X, Zelensky 
attacking Belgorod ahead of the 

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Trump Putin summit to provoke 
Russia into massive retaliation 

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and also making the point that 
they'd begun striking 

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residential buildings inside 
Russia in an attempt to provoke 

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a major retaliation before the 
Trump Putin summit. 

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So lots of that going on now. 
A couple of days ago, the 

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Russian Embassy in London put 
out a statement and it said 

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Russia has been and remains open
to resolving the Ukrainian 

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conflict through political and 
diplomatic means. 

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At the same time, we must pursue
A lasting and long term peace, 

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which can only be achieved by 
eradicating the root causes of 

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the crisis. 
Against this background, we note

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the ongoing attempts by London 
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disrupt a peace resolution of 
the conflict by eliminating its 

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root causes. 
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identify. 
To finish that quote, one of the

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root causes they identify is 
Britain and rightly so. 

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And they're going to say in 
their statement, this is clearly

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demonstrated by the statements 
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British leadership in the run up
to the Russian American summit 

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in Alaska. 
This policy once again confirms 

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the opportunistic approach of 
the European capitals which are 

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hoping to further use Ukraine as
an anti Russian battering ram. 

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So, but let's come on to a 
comedy segment on today's news. 

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And because Britain has been 
pulling out all the stops to 

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keep the war going, as the 
Russians hint at here, including

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sending the chief of the Defence
staff, the vastly delusional Sir

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Tony Ratigan, to Washington to 
speak to the Centre for 

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Strategic and International 
Studies. 

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For those of you who haven't 
made it through one of my 

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speeches before, he said, the 
gist is as follows. 

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We're in a more dangerous era, 
but Britain remains safe, NATO 

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is stronger, Russia is weak, and
the West has the military and 

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economic and intellectual heft 
needed to buttress the global 

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system. 
And, you know, the question is, 

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what has he been smoking? 
Now I want to highlight four 

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points he made in his speech and
get Vanessa and Mark's thoughts 

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on them. 
Maybe. 

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So. 
First, his claim that Britain 

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has good reason to be confident 
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forces and intelligence 
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He said in the strength of our 
defence construct and the path 

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before us now is the right one. 
Second, he said NATO too should 

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be confident in the enormous 
overmatch we enjoy in Russia's 

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weakness and Putin, Putin's 
dilemma, and how that should 

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embolden our strategy of 
deterrence. 

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Third, he said the return of 
statecraft, how our leaders 

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prepared to use the military 
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levers of national power to 
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interests. 
And the fourth point he made was

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a point on technology and the 
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especially with respect to 
artificial intelligence. 

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So, Vanessa, maybe if I could 
invite a comment from you first,

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assuming you've stopped laughing
at this point, what do you make 

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of that? 
What's your nonsense? 

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It's utterly delusional. 
I don't really know what else to

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say. 
I mean, it's it's such hubris in

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the face of what has been 
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special military operation. 
I don't know. 

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I don't know if they think 
they're going to defeat Russia 

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with propaganda. 
That's about the best I can make

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of that. 
Yeah, I mean, it is. 

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So it is so incredibly difficult
now to comment on some of these 

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things that these guys are 
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completely off their heads. 
But you know, while Ratigan was 

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deployed to wind up the US 
audience, former MI 6 head Sir 

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Alex Younger was deployed to the
Radio for Today programme 

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yesterday to wind up the 
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So let's just have a brief 
listen to what he had to say. 

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I think we can isolate some 
facts nonetheless. 

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The first is that Steve Witkoff,
Trump's envoy, is out of his 

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depth. 
He can talk, but he doesn't 

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listen. 
He doesn't write stuff down. 

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He didn't take an interpreter. 
So this deal, this oven ready 

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deal that he's presented, which 
apparently just requires Russian

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signature, is a total fantasy. 
And that relates to the second 

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hard fact, which as I've seen 
absolutely nothing that 

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indicates that Putin is in any 
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and resolve from his aim of 
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So it's, it's hard to be 
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course we desperately want a 
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The the risks are pretty high on
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And the key things we need from 
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that Ukraine gets in the room, 
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the pressure we're putting on 
Putin, which is working. 

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We've been pretty hopeless our 
sort of vacillation and put 

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solemnity actually in some ways 
encourage Putin. 

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We've been living in La La land,
but it's hard to overstate how 

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different that feels now. 
And of course, we Europe has 

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been excluded. 
And that's a problem as as it is

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that Ukraine has been excluded. 
But I think they've organised to

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tremendous effect to add 
consequence to both Putin and 

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Trump's actions. 
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And this is a bold statement and
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but I think we're getting to the
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actually effectively substitute 
for the tremendous contribution 

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the US has made. 
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that Trump remains ready to sell
weapons and to sustain the 

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intelligence fee. 
So the question is, what's The 

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upshot of all this nonsense 
rhetoric? 

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Well, according to the Financial
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European Defence Union, Europe 
bills for war as arms factories 

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expand at triple speed is their 
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Now Alex Younger may be saying 
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to maintain arms supplies or or 
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seems to be working. 
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work. 
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they can to minimise the 
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and to maximise the tax fair 
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could be made from the war 
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To quote them a little bit here,
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expanding at three times the 
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over 7,000,000 square metres of 
new industrial development That 

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represents rearmament on a 
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They're going to say the data 
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promised defence revival, driven
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subsidies is being is beginning 
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policy rhetoric or spending 
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and steel. 
And Vanessa, the longer this 

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progresses, the more I'm coming 
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simply a rerun of the COVID 
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So you create an enemy that 
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make no mistake, at least in my 
opinion, Russia is not our enemy

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unless we unless we make it 1:00
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to justify funnelling tax money 
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whether those are Big Pharma in 
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in the other case. 
Do you think I'm wrong in that? 

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No. 
Absolutely not. 

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I would actually say that COVID 
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previous war strategy because 
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It's created the the boogeyman, 
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or Muammar Gaddafi or President 
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the fear factor that somehow 
they're threatening national 

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security in the EUUK or US since
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So I, I think really it's just a
continuation of the same 

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strategy that really took 
precedence after 911. 

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OK. 
Well, thank you for that. 

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Now let's come to you and well, 
Patrick on Wednesday was talking

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a little bit about the potential
for the growing conflict in in 

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Lebanon. 
But what's your thoughts on the 

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situation? 
Yeah, a lot of manoeuvring going

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on, of course, with Saudi Arabia
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Washington to try and disarm 
Hezbollah and other resistance 

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factions, not only Shia Muslim 
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resistance factions in Lebanon 
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course, supported Palestine and 
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Israel. 
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look at what's been going on 
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I know Pat alluded to this on 
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surrender. 
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cabinet decision on disarmament,
where basically they were saying

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that there should be a state 
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the year. 
But however, we're not putting 

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any pressure on Israel to 
withdraw from the points that it

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continues to occupy in southern 
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And of course, it continues, I 
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now of the alleged ceasefire 
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November 2024. 
So this is quite interesting. 

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This was a poll that was carried
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Centre for Studies and 
Documentation carried out 

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between the 27th of July and the
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individuals from all different 
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with the results that the 
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Hezbollah disarmament. 
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Majority of the citizens opposed
to disarmament of Hezbollah 

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without guaranteed National 
Defence strategy. 71.7% believe 

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that the Lebanese Armed Forces 
or the army is not capable of 

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confronting Israeli attacks 
alone, which is absolutely 

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correct. 76% believe that 
diplomatic relations will not 

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deter Israel and 58% are against
disarmament with no alternative 

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strategy. 
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the threat from the Takfiri 
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Syria President Abu Mohammad Al 
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he's known now in the West. 
So this was the result on the 

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questions raised regarding the 
threat from Syria. 73% see 

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events in Syria as an 
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74% believe Syria threatens 
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Lebanon. 68% fear that they 
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armed groups against in Syria, 
against Lebanon. 

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And of course, this is very much
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talking about the the invasion 
of the north or the infiltration

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of the north of Lebanon by the 
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Syria. 
Now I just want to run this 

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video. 
This was a video filmed on the 

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10th of August. 
So a few days ago now, there was

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a a tragedy that hit the 
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Six soldiers died when Hezbollah
had actually taken them to an A 

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Hezbollah arms depot for them to
dismantle it. 

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What is interesting is here you 
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see the Hezbollah resistance 
flag being flown alongside one 

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another. 
What is very important for 

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people to understand is that the
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example, a family in the South, 
one of their sons might go into 

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the army and the other might 
join Hezbollah, just to give you

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an indication of how intertwined
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resistance basically are. 
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just quickly about that story, 
no need to go back, is that 

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Israel actually warned the 
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peacekeeping units not to go 
with the Lebanese army, which is

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very unusual. 
And there were Israeli drones 

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overhead during the time that 
the army were investigating or 

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dismantling the Hezbollah 
weapons. 

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So speculation here is that 
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the attack in order to try and 
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and Hezbollah. 
Now I think this is important. 

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I want to look at the options 
for Lebanon. 

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I know touched on them, but I 
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detail. 
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potential of course for war in 
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the Lebanese Armed Forces or 
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within the army itself. 
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poorly weaponized by the US that
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scenario, Geelani would 
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created to, in inverted commas, 
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the army, which is very similar 
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from Tom Barrack, the US will 
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weapons. 
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read it again to understand how 
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perspective, giving a message to
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A great sin that serves Zionist 
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This is not an exaggeration. 
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government acting under external
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Lebanon's security. 
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A parliamentary paper or a 
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A resistance that is woven into 
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Pro resistance voices across 
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Bakar to Beirut have mobilised 
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aligned with resistance factions
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Legitimacy does not come from 
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protests, parliamentary 
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regional partners and a complete
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This is a fight for Lebanon 
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I think she said it very clearly
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Yeah. 
Thank you, Vanessa. 

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Thank you very much for that. 
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Mark, what is neuro warfare? 

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Let's ask that question to begin
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Well Mike, first of all, let me 
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some of the Red Pill conference,
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in Tulsa and there was 1 
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Five Brains initiative. 
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started digging into the rabbit 
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thetruthhound.com blog which has
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and I came up with this article 
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question. 
NATO linked fictional, so called

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fictional war strategy scenario.
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Sees the human mind, the human 
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conquer. 
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I'm just referencing the article
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An independent French institute,
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these studies has produced a war
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human mind itself as the next 
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domain to conquer and occupy. 
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put together by Herve Lee 
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National Higher School of 
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France. 
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initially issued about five 
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it calls a largely fictitious 
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envisioning a time frame from 
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So it's looking at all these 
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disturbing theme is the 
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And we'll continue here. 
This is a picture of the 

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researcher, Mr. Lee Godier. 
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right? 
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page to his study, Weaponization
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And again, this particular 
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fictional framework, saying some
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Anyway, as I note in this slide,
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2026 NATO summit transcending to
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We now have the human mind as 
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And all of this study and all of
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culminate in a, for now, 
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take place July 17th, 2020, 
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And the report suggest that is 
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essay they call it. 
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be entitled The Human Mind, the 
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And just for clarity, we'll show
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what are those six domains, Air,
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mechanics of a little of this a 
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issues surrounding it as well. 
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we've all heard of the Five Eyes
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Australia, Canada, New Zealand, 
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this talk, some of it 
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the Five Brains initiative. 
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up five brains would be France, 
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US. 
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that French report, it says 
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that everything can be 
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more broadly speaking NBIC or 
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info technology and cognitive 
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state and non state actors with 
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That's the executive summary of 
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other things. 
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interesting. 
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report, one of the eight 
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neuroscience weaponization 
research is to recognise fake 

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news or fake news recognition. 
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Page 5, it notes the risks that 
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Democratic systems and that 
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power to spread and receive what
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information. 
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the French researcher, it asked 
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article five, among other 
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news, factories prompting aid, 
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And what's really jumping out at
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at a few more slides, is that as
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they move this stuff from 
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research and scooted into the 
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closer and closer to defining 
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enemy tactics. 
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off if you extrapolate this a 
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especially if it were to affect 
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significantly enough, then that 
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element of an enemy of enemy 
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cognitively changing the 
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And that's a pretty chilling 
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Now we'll we'll move forward 
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Is it really so fictional? 
This next slide asked that 

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question, not so fictional 
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Here's another study. 
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In 2024, NATO's Allied Command 
Transformation, and This Is Real

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was tasked with developing A 
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concept to be finalised in late 
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So there's some reality to this 
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explain a little more and the 
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Swords, a magazine by a 
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centre in its infancy. 
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awareness of a new NATO concept 
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but will have a major impact on 
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and the way future wars are 
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So this is an interesting 
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One of the main goals is to 
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This also comes from that report
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showing this to be a more real, 
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Cognitive warfare, it says, is a
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the cognition of individuals, 
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their decision making processes 
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It would mean propaganda. 
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heavily, things like that. 
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typically measurable, they do 
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act. 
Using brain centred technologies

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that aim to destabilise 
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And I put emphasis on this and 
fracture and break social 

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cohesion. 
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my opinion before we look at 
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think about television, if you 
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academia, especially television,
elements of cognitive warfare 

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have been going on for a very 
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cartel, the conventional news 
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social cohesion. 
Look at BBC's field operations 

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that you and Brian have talked 
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It undermines the culture, it 
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So NATO is talking about this 
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transformation. 
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all of this might come from 
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democratic societies that NATO 
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receiving end of this. 
That's largely what the 

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discussion is about. 
But we all know that the best 

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offence is a good or the best 
defence is a good offence 

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rather, and therefore NATO is 
going to practise the very 

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things that it condemns. 
They're going to use cognitive 

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warfare. 
In fact, they already are 

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against who they perceive to be 
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as they say, China and Russia 
will use it against Western 

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nations and NATO nations. 
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to this, let's show this last 
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The National Library of Medicine
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of Health is talking about this 
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a reality and its applicability 
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The headline of this study from 
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Cognitive warfare, a conceptual 
analysis of the NATO Allied 

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Command transformation cognitive
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published just last November. 
And so it's fast becoming a 

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reality, even though parts of it
are hypothetical for now, but 

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they're really trying to be 
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omniscient in terms of 
monitoring people, surveilling 

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people and looking at 
undermining entire societies and

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actually backing away from 
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That's what I'm hearing. 
There'd be less bombs and 

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missiles and more challenging 
the the the thinking and the 

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societal structure of the so 
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So it's a it's a long term 
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I wanted to get it out today, 
Mike. 

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Naturally, I'll return to this 
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do an article on it as well. 
So back to you. 

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Thank you, Mark. 
And what I would say to this is 

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we need to talk about this an 
extra, but I would just make the

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suggestion that in fact, this is
this type of these types of 

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reports suggesting that this 
type of warfare is somehow 

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something theoretical are there 
and are promoted in order to 

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pursue the idea in people's 
minds that they are still 

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theoretical. 
I think if we look at what 

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happened during COVID, if we 
look at the deployment of the of

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the behavioural insights team 
and, and their types of 

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operations, this is cognitive 
warfare that we are 

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experiencing. 
We are experiencing that every 

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day of our lives at the moment. 
And NATO can busy accuse, can be

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busy accusing Russia and China 
of this and of doing this on our

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population. 
NATO is doing this on its own 

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population. 
And I think that is absolutely 

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demonstrable. 
We'll talk about more a little 

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bit more about that in extra 
now. 

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Let's move on then, to Will 
Colesel and his latest report on

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the Paloma Shamrani inquest. 
Hello, this is Will Coles with 

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Reporting for UK column on what 
I believe is now the 8th day of 

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00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,720
the Paloma Shamarani inquest. 
Here at Kent and Medway 

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00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,560
Coroner's Court today we've seen
a huge amount of evidence with 

465
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:46,240
three days of testimony this 
week. 

466
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,160
This is a case still getting 
widespread mainstream media 

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00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,000
attention and I remain the only 
independent journalist down here

468
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,720
covering the case. 
In all, this case breaks down to

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00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,720
three main questions, on most of
which the coroner is likely to 

470
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:02,240
find A of course, the final 
calls of Paloma Shamarani's 

471
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,600
death. 
B whether Paloma had competence 

472
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,680
to make her own decisions and 
choose alternative therapies, 

473
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,320
which has been centre of much of
the mainstream media framing of 

474
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,320
the narrative, and the 
accusation of Paloma's brother 

475
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:21,800
that their mother killed Paloma.
And finally, see what led Paloma

476
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,840
to go down the route of 
alternative therapy and whether 

477
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,200
her treatment at the Mainstone 
Hospital under Doctor Mohan was 

478
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:29,640
what pushed her in that 
direction. 

479
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,520
I've also spoken to Simone 
Platt, who despite being denied 

480
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,320
her testimony in court, has been
down here observing every day 

481
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:41,400
and who Paloma called Auntie and
saw at least every week roughly 

482
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,840
until her death. 
In terms of the final cause of 

483
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,880
Paloma's death, it's looking 
ever more likely that the 

484
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,200
coroner will rule in favour of 
the media Stein or Mass, leading

485
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,600
to a blockage of the Airways. 
We've seen accusations that 

486
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,800
adrenaline help to spur on her 
death. 

487
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,320
However, the paramedics and also
the air ambulance doctor 

488
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,880
testifying today made very clear
that they did not believe that 

489
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,560
adrenaline was the cause of 
death and seemed entirely united

490
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,400
in their approach. 
Despite Katie Morani putting 

491
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,040
forth evidence of pink frothing 
at the mouth, which she says is 

492
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,360
in line with an overdose of 
adrenaline. 

493
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,480
Much has also been made of the 
U12 plus dose of adrenaline 

494
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,320
given to Paloma despite a very 
slight weight and the fact that 

495
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,480
this dose is uniform for all 
ages and the body weights over 

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00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,000
12 years old. 
In terms of competence, we had a

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00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:29,240
shocking revelation yesterday 
from the coroner who said during

498
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,840
a very fractious moment, I have 
no doubt for the evidence that 

499
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,040
I've heard the Paloma high 
capacity and I believe that I 

500
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:35,680
will be finding that in due 
course. 

501
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,960
We've seen overwhelming evidence
in favour of Paloma's 

502
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,320
competence, whether her written 
statements, whether the 

503
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:45,880
testimony of I believe 4 doctors
now in the court and also the 

504
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,160
testimony of family members. 
I spoke to Simone Platt on this 

505
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,520
matter. 
Loma and I, during that period 

506
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,400
of her illness, became very, 
very close. 

507
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:59,560
She called me auntie and she 
confided in me and we became 

508
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,840
very, very close. 
And so was she competent to make

509
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,520
her own decisions by your own 
estimation? 

510
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:09,400
Absolutely. 
She would research, look into 

511
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,920
things, She would look at books,
she would look in Internet, 

512
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,640
she'd look at research papers, 
she'd look at all sorts of 

513
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:20,400
things and did a great deal of 
research into her, her illness, 

514
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,280
her diagnosis, tests she was 
going to have what her blood 

515
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,400
tests and other tests meant. 
She was really on the ball. 

516
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,360
From this it seems almost 
certain that the narrative of 

517
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,880
the mainstream media has been 
debunked. 

518
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,080
The question at the centre of 
this mainstream media storm 

519
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,720
seems to have been answered. 
In fact, it seems to have been 

520
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,960
answered so strongly that the 
coroner has pre announced her 

521
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,360
decision. 
Despite this, mainstream media 

522
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,640
interest is continuing and 
mainstream media organisations 

523
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:54,840
including the BBC, ITV and PA 
Media have pushed for different 

524
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:56,920
evidence in the case to be 
released to the public. 

525
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,240
Now the two pieces of evidence 
that were considered as a final 

526
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,680
decision today. 
The final rulings were the 999 

527
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:08,160
call where Paloma had collapsed 
and Keisha Morani was on the 

528
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,320
phone to the ambulance crew and 
a thoroughly, thoroughly 

529
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,120
distressing piece of evidence 
which I heard in court the other

530
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,840
day. 
And also the voice note between 

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00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,040
Keisha Morani and the ex 
boyfriend or boyfriend at the 

532
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:25,600
time and a Harris when Paloma 
was first ill in December 2023. 

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00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,080
In terms of the 999 call, the 
coroner ruled that due to the 

534
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,920
right to privacy and the 
distressing and intimate nature 

535
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,960
of the call that it should not 
be given out to the press and 

536
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:36,280
should not be given out to the 
public. 

537
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,600
I've heard this call myself and 
it is deeply, deeply disturbing.

538
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,600
I saw at least one member in the
of the court weeping. 

539
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,280
In terms of voice note from 
December 2023 with Kate Shimrani

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00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,600
instructing the then boyfriend 
and the Harris to bring Paloma 

541
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,720
to her house. 
I don't believe this is going to

542
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,760
be of significant note, but I 
believe the mainstream media 

543
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,520
will still try and capitalise on
this. 

544
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,720
The final point on which we have
not touched is how Paloma came 

545
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,240
to her decision despite her 
competence and whether Paloma 

546
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,720
was pushed into making a 
decision because of her 

547
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,520
treatment at the Maidstone 
Hospital where there seems to be

548
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,200
significant evidence to show 
that she was given treatment 

549
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,160
without her consent, both from 
her testimonies and that of her 

550
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,000
mother and also other family 
members and friends. 

551
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,440
Keisha Marani has also alleged 
that one of the drugs given 

552
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,640
rispirocates is not licenced to 
be used as a stand alone 

553
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,160
treatment, meaning Paloma should
have consented to chemotherapy 

554
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,160
before this drug was given. 
In particular, we returned to 

555
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,000
Doctor Mohan, who I covered on 
the first day of the hearing and

556
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,000
who left the country seemingly 
the next day. 

557
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,520
I think it made a massive 
difference. 

558
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:39,000
She initially wanted to go home 
and think about it, but when she

559
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:44,720
became incredibly ill literally 
within days of well, within 

560
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:51,840
hours of, of reaching home after
her leaving hospital and then 

561
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,000
all sorts of things going wrong 
in terms of, you know, hair 

562
00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:02,280
falling out, her feeling really 
unwell, vomiting, really, really

563
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,120
unwell. 
Yet she'd been well enough to 

564
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,520
fly to Sweden and back from 
Sweden just days earlier, before

565
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:10,560
she'd been to Maidstone 
Hospital. 

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00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:15,760
She knew that drugs she'd been 
given had been misdescribed. 

567
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,159
I mean, there was a particular 
thing about a giving set. 

568
00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:23,280
This is one of these bags with 
saline in, and there was a label

569
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,840
on it and she'd been told it was
saline flush. 

570
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:31,920
And it turned out it had a label
on it, had a drug, a medicine in

571
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:33,360
it that she hadn't been told 
about. 

572
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:37,800
So she became very, very 
suspicious and nervous of that 

573
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,400
hospital and didn't want to go 
back there. 

574
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,920
There are questions to be asked 
about the conduct, informed 

575
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:48,280
consent and the NHS and it will 
be interesting to see whether 

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00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:49,800
the coroner eventually rules on 
those. 

577
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,840
We have one further date for 
court which is the 27th of 

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00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,440
August and we now have a 
provisional date for a ruling 

579
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:58,640
the 3rd of September. 
Remain peeled. 

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00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:01,440
We'll continue covering this is 
will Cultural reporting for UK 

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00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:06,160
column. 
So thanks very much to Will for 

582
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,560
that and we will keep you posted
as things develop. 

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00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,920
OK, now, if you like what the UK
column does, if you'd like to 

584
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,480
support us, uh, please have a 
look at the front page of the 

585
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,520
website. 
There's tonnes of new content 

586
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,360
going on there every day. 
Uh, but if you look over here on

587
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,960
the right hand side, it takes 
you to a page which shows you 

588
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,160
how you can support us. 
We do need your continued 

589
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,200
support. 
Thank you very much to everybody

590
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,000
that is, please do that. 
But if you can't support us 

591
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,280
financially, then please do 
share our material as widely as 

592
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:38,280
you possibly can. 
Now, as we've mentioned, UK 

593
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,440
column next on location event is
Saturday, the 18th of October in

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00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,120
New York. 
Andrew Wakefield is going to be 

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00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,160
one of the main speakers at that
and we're going to be announcing

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00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,880
more speakers next week. 
And of course, if you do pick up

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00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,000
a ticket for this or for the 
live stream and live stream 

598
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,280
tickets are available now as 
well, That does give you access 

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00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,800
to Andrew Wakefield's film 
Protocol 7. 

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00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,360
So please do pick up those 
tickets as soon as you can 

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00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,720
because there are not many left 
tonight at 7:00 PM. 

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00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,440
Charles and I are speaking to 
Germ as we usually do on a 

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00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,880
Friday. 
So that's at 7:00. 

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00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,600
Please have a look for that. 
We're looking at Empire in 

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00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,600
particular. 
And Sandy's interview with, 

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00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:23,520
with, with Peter Taylor has went
out yesterday at 1:00 PM. 

607
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,040
That's on the UK column website.
Now if you haven't seen that, 

608
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,800
Vanessa, very briefly, we're 
you've been writing extensively 

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00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,720
over the last few weeks. 
We're creating a new section on 

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00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:36,920
the website called Syria Centric
Regional Analysis. 

611
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,240
Just very briefly, any thoughts 
on that? 

612
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,120
Yeah, we're just going to bring 
together a number of regional 

613
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,920
analysts and myself included, 
and we'll be bringing analysis 

614
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,400
not only from Syria, but very 
much with Syria as the hub 

615
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,160
radiating out into the entire 
West Asia region. 

616
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,280
OK, super. 
Thank you for that. 

617
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,920
Now let's move on to online 
safety. 

618
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,680
We've been talking about that 
extensively over the last few 

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00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,240
weeks, over the last few years, 
but particularly in the last few

620
00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:09,960
weeks as the regime begins to 
roll out. 

621
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:15,280
And well, I just want to draw 
your attention to the Open 

622
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:19,600
Rights Group which has published
a page entitled Blocked, which 

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00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,880
lists websites which have either
shut down or have been Geo 

624
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:27,280
blocked or have imposed age 
restrictions as a result of the 

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00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,200
Online Safety Act. 
Now some of these sites won't be

626
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,920
missed by some people because 
they're not that interesting, 

627
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:34,480
but that's neither here nor 
there. 

628
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,960
Many of the sites on here will 
be missed by people. 

629
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,400
It should be noted that these 
are all user reported. 

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00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,360
And so there may be a few which 
you know where it says it's 

631
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,400
blocked, but which you may not 
find. 

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00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,720
You may not find a block in 
place because maybe your IP 

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00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:51,440
address isn't recognised as auk 
address for various reasons, but

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00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:56,680
nonetheless they are sites that 
many have reported. 

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00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:01,240
And if we just run through this,
little gives you an idea of how 

636
00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:05,400
many sites that are being 
discussed here already and you 

637
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:09,960
know lots of them. 
Now this is developing page and 

638
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:13,800
of course this is exactly the 
effect that the UK regime wants 

639
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,000
to see. 
And what I would say is that 

640
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,360
following on from Wikipedia's 
attempt to deal with its own 

641
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,400
problems with the legislation 
that I was talking about on 

642
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,920
Wednesday's news programme, 
quite a number of people are 

643
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,400
calling on Wikipedia to 
effectively join the list of 

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00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,520
people that are Geo blocking 
Wikipedia and go dark in the 

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00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,240
United Kingdom. 
I think the problem is that I 

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00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:38,160
don't think Wikipedia is trying 
to take any action which would 

647
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,560
undermine the ACT in the way 
that it took its legal action. 

648
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,600
It's not in any way against the 
Act in principle. 

649
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,280
I think it just wants to make 
sure that it is OK. 

650
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,600
So I think that sadly it's 
unlikely that they would take 

651
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,160
that action. 
But frankly, if they did take 

652
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,960
it, that would of course 
massively raise the general 

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00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,680
awareness of the situation in 
the population. 

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00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:07,080
Now at at the back of this, of 
course, is at the back of this 

655
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,800
is the fact that this is just 
the first of the Online Safety 

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00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,600
Acts provisions to be 
implemented and that's age 

657
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,720
verification, otherwise known as
digital ID. 

658
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:22,080
And Cory Doctorow here offers an
excellent overview of the 

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00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,600
situation. 
Now the link, as with all the 

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00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:28,440
links will be in the show notes.
He takes apart the Starmer 

661
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,680
regime's claim that it's 
possible to do age verification 

662
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,840
and at the same time to maintain
individual privacy. 

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00:39:35,240 --> 00:39:39,240
And remember that this current 
regime sees platforms using 

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00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:43,000
quite a number of different, so 
called age assurance providers, 

665
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,040
meaning that individuals wanting
to use platforms are going to 

666
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,480
have to send their personal data
to an ever widening range of 

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00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,880
companies. 
We're sharing that with, well, 

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00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:52,880
with whom? 
Because we don't actually know. 

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00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:56,240
And Doctor O concludes that to 
quote them a little bit here, 

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00:39:56,240 --> 00:40:00,440
age verification is an 
impossibility and an impossibly 

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00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:04,680
terrible idea with an impossibly
vast array of consequences for 

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00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:08,760
privacy and the open web. 
Now as the. 

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00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:15,000
Electronic Frontier Foundation, 
or EFF, wrote in June following 

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00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,920
a court hearing in the United 
States or a court ruling that no

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00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:22,600
person, adult or child, has a 
First Amendment right to access 

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00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,880
speech that is obscene to minors
without first submitting proof 

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00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,760
of age. 
They went on to say that a 

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00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,520
person who submits identifying 
information online can never be 

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00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,720
sure if websites will keep that 
information or how that 

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00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:37,480
information will be used or 
disclosed. 

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00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:41,080
This leaves users highly 
vulnerable to data breaches and 

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00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:45,480
other security harms. 
So the question is what's going 

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00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,040
on here? 
And state this once again, this 

684
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,520
has got nothing to do with 
protecting children. 

685
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,920
It's about two things, 
censorship and intelligence 

686
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,600
gathering. 
The censorship aspect we're all 

687
00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:00,800
familiar with and we should be 
familiar with the use of social 

688
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,680
media for intelligence gathering
as well. 

689
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:08,840
But of course that's hard if 
people are able to use social 

690
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:12,240
media relatively anonymously. 
It's hard to to use social media

691
00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:15,680
as as an intelligence gathering 
operation while we're able to 

692
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,160
use it anonymously. 
That is. 

693
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:21,680
So nonetheless, we should be 
fully aware by now of the scale 

694
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:27,120
of the state spying operation 
here in the UK, but for anybody 

695
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:31,440
in the in other countries in the
EU or the US, they're not too 

696
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,360
far behind. 
So this is just one aspect of 

697
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:39,160
the digital prison we're now 
accepting as a matter of 

698
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:43,600
convenience. 
Now, let's just mention Karen 

699
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:50,560
Bradley here and this letter to 
her from Diane Johnson, who's 

700
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,880
the Minister of State for 
Policing and Crime Prevention, 

701
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:58,880
who said in here that and that 
Karen Bradley had asked about 

702
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,120
current plans to build police 
capability for using social 

703
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,240
media intelligence at force and 
national levels. 

704
00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:07,040
And the fact that they were 
carefully considering 

705
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,680
recommendations made and that 
they were talking about as 

706
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:14,120
they're in fact building a 
national Internet intelligence 

707
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,840
investigations team as part of 
the National Police Coordination

708
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:21,120
Centre. 
So this is just another example 

709
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:25,200
of the type of infrastructure 
that's been built to spy on us. 

710
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,960
But of course, the key thing 
here is they want to be able to 

711
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,320
identify individuals that 
they're spying on. 

712
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,720
Now, in related news, we we're 
all pleased, we're pleased to 

713
00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:38,200
let you know that I'm sure 
you're excited about it, that AI

714
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:42,080
is going to be used to help 
catch, help the police catch 

715
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,360
criminals. 
So the British regime is rolling

716
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:49,360
out this next stage of its pre 
crime infrastructure because 

717
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:53,120
criminals hell bent on making 
others lives a misery they say 

718
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,200
face being stopped before they 
can strike through the cutting 

719
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,960
edge mapping technology 
supported by a that AI. 

720
00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:03,160
That's according to Peter Kyle. 
The press release says that 

721
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,960
innovators have been tasked with
developing A detailed, real time

722
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:10,760
and interactive crime map that 
spans England and Wales and can 

723
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,480
detect, tract and depict and 
predict where a devastating 

724
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:17,480
knife crime is likely to occur 
or spot early warning signs of 

725
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,880
antisocial behaviour before it 
spirals out of control, giving 

726
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:24,560
police the Intel they need to 
step in and keep the public 

727
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,920
safe. 
They say that it will be rooted 

728
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,360
in advanced AI that will examine
how to bring together data 

729
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,120
shared between police, councils 
and social services, including 

730
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:36,480
criminal records, previous 
incident locations and 

731
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,400
behavioural patterns of known 
offenders. 

732
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,760
And they're, they've announced 
they're going to set up 

733
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:44,080
something called the 
Concentrations of Crime Data 

734
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,200
Challenge, which will set a 
quotes clear and measurable 

735
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:51,800
target corporate, corporate and 
university teams as part of this

736
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:56,000
regime's £500 million research 
and development missions 

737
00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:00,200
accelerator programme. 
So they're going to, so the 

738
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:01,560
question is, how are they going 
to do this? 

739
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,200
Well, they're going to build 
more data centres, of course. 

740
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:09,440
And but don't worry because as 
Charles reported on Wednesday, 

741
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:14,520
we can offset the water wasted 
cooling these data centres and 

742
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,560
our data prison by deleting a 
few emails. 

743
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,200
So there we go. 
If you remember what it said 

744
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,840
here, delete all the emails and 
pictures as data centres require

745
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,480
vast amounts of water to cool 
their systems. 

746
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,520
And then finally, on this topic 
then there's been much fanfare 

747
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:36,560
across mainstream media that 
sorry that pornography websites 

748
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,680
have been seeing viewing figures
fall significantly since the age

749
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,560
verification regime came into 
force. 

750
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:45,000
Now of course, that fact itself 
is unverified. 

751
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:49,160
The data seems to be coming from
a third party and doesn't seem 

752
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,720
to take into account the massive
growth in VPN usage which has 

753
00:44:52,720 --> 00:44:56,000
happened in parallel since this 
regime has been rolled out. 

754
00:44:56,360 --> 00:45:00,200
So traffic appearing to come 
from the UK may appear to have 

755
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:05,400
fallen, it undoubtedly has. 
But traffic to these sites, The 

756
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,240
question is, has it fallen 
across the board? 

757
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,600
I think probably not. 
The people who use websites such

758
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:12,320
as this will not stop using 
them. 

759
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:13,440
They're going to find another 
way. 

760
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,800
And VPNs, of course, is the most
obvious choice. 

761
00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:20,640
So anyway, we'll leave that 
topic there for now and go back 

762
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:25,440
to international news. 
And Vanessa, what's been going 

763
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:31,760
on with Iran? 
Yeah, interesting developments. 

764
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,800
Of course. 
We saw at the end of Marwa's 

765
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,400
video that she said that one of 
the tactics of the resistance 

766
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,960
factions in Lebanon would be to 
reach out to their allies in the

767
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,240
region. 
And I just wanted to include 

768
00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:47,360
this article written by a new 
writer for UK column very much 

769
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:52,720
from the region, Ibrahim Majid, 
who's writing about on on a bi 

770
00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:57,000
weekly basis on the situation in
the region, talking about the 

771
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:01,800
regional disarmament of any 
forces, whether resistance or 

772
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:07,320
actual military that may present
a threat to Israel now or in the

773
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:11,440
next century basically. 
So there is a concerted effort 

774
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:16,320
by Israel to wipe out any 
potential threat to the security

775
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,880
of Israel during its 
expansionist programme. 

776
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:23,240
So basically what we've seen is 
the Iran security chief has been

777
00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:28,120
visiting both Iraq and Lebanon. 
He was in Baghdad for talks on 

778
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,520
the next phase of the resistance
axis. 

779
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:35,040
And this is because there are 
moves by Washington and Israel 

780
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:39,920
also to disarm what is perceived
to be the resistance factions in

781
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:43,920
Iraq itself. 
Nor Al Maliki, the former Prime 

782
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:47,880
Minister of Iraq, put out a very
strong statement saying that we 

783
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:52,000
agreed in the meeting with 
Lajarani that Iran and Iraq 

784
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,360
would refuse to disarm 
Hezbollah, all the Popular 

785
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:59,520
Mobilisation forces in Iraq. 
Of course the PMF does come 

786
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,920
under the governance of the 
Iraqi military. 

787
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,880
He also said had it not been for
the PMF, of course, the 

788
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,480
Americans would would have 
swallowed Iraq. 

789
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:12,480
And the same could be sad if 
Hezbollah is eradicated in 

790
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,520
Lebanon. 
Now in Lebanon as a result of 

791
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:19,400
some of the statements from the 
Iranian foreign minister and 

792
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:24,480
other diplomats, members of the 
opposition to the resistance. 

793
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:29,200
In other words, those that are 
aligned with Israel, like Jamail

794
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:32,080
demands the expulsion of the 
Iranian ambassador, says 

795
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,320
Tehran's guardianship is over, 
which is kind of extraordinary 

796
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,480
as they're accepting diktats 
from Israel, Washington and 

797
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:41,480
Saudi Arabia. 
So there's a little bit of 

798
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:45,000
hypocrisy, to put it mildly 
there. 

799
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:49,280
And then let's say what Ali 
Lejrani said, the new security 

800
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:54,520
chief from Iran, when he was in 
Lebanon, he was diplomatically 

801
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:56,680
very blunt. 
So he said Lebanon should be 

802
00:47:56,680 --> 00:48:00,720
strong and independent, not take
orders from across the oceans. 

803
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:05,000
Those who interfere in Lebanon's
affairs are imposing plans and 

804
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,000
deadlines. 
And he's absolutely correct on 

805
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,600
this because the deadlines for 
the resistance disarmament is, 

806
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,840
of course, coming from Israel 
and Washington, not necessarily 

807
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:18,400
from the Lebanese government. 
He also went on to say in 

808
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:23,680
coordination with President 
Allen of Lebanon, Iran wishes to

809
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:27,080
strengthen its relations with 
the Lebanese state and people at

810
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,520
all levels. 
So he's making a very clear 

811
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:32,680
point here. 
I commend President Allen. 

812
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:36,160
Sorry, I misspelt that or it was
spell checked wrongly for 

813
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:40,640
reinforcing national unity and 
unifying ranks within all 

814
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:43,080
Lebanese sects. 
So while this is a very 

815
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:46,640
diplomatic message, I think it's
it's palpably clear. 

816
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:51,560
And the head of Hezbollah has 
also made a very clear statement

817
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:55,160
yesterday on the fact that 
Hezbollah will resist 

818
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:59,160
disarmament with with everything
they possibly can. 

819
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:03,600
Sorry, just another mention of 
Syria centric regional analysis,

820
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,560
which is going to be a new 
section on UK column covering 

821
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:10,960
analysis on the region and 
focusing very much on on the 

822
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:14,520
whole of West Asia. 
But I wanted to today look at 

823
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,520
what's been going on in Syria. 
There's a recent article that 

824
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:20,600
was published yesterday at UK 
column by myself. 

825
00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:25,160
Syria prey to the globalist 
Kabal and crony capitalist Al 

826
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:28,000
Qaeda regime. 
Effectively what we're seeing 

827
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:31,400
now in Syria is very much what 
happened in Iraq and of course 

828
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:34,600
elsewhere. 
It's standard procedure after 

829
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:39,000
USUK LED disintegration of a 
country and and destruction of 

830
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,040
its sovereignty. 
We're seeing crony capitalism 

831
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:46,400
come to the fore. 
They supply or or what we've 

832
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:50,680
been seeing since May through 
July and August are the 

833
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:55,680
creations of memorandums of 
understandings with companies 

834
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,560
that I demonstrate in the 
article to be very shady. 

835
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:02,760
Many of them front companies or 
shell companies without the 

836
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:06,080
financial wherewithal to 
actually follow through on the 

837
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:07,920
pledges. 
So of course, what we're 

838
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:12,160
actually seeing is the attempt 
to bring money in through 

839
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:15,480
corruption and crony capitalism 
in Syria, which is going to line

840
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:20,880
the pockets of Washington, their
elected regime, which at the 

841
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:25,480
moment is the Al Qaeda corrupt 
regime that has for years been 

842
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:30,160
syphoning off both gold and 
finances and wealth from inside 

843
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:34,240
Syria, even when it only 
contained or or controlled 

844
00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:36,200
Idlib. 
Now, of course, it's being done 

845
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,800
on a much larger scale. 
So I just want to go into some 

846
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:40,640
depth. 
It's all in the article. 

847
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:44,600
People can go and read that. 
But just some examples from what

848
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,000
has been going on, the companies
involved. 

849
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:51,840
So if I could just have the 
slide after this one, if 

850
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:53,800
possible. 
These are a couple of the 

851
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,360
companies. 
So the memorandums of 

852
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:59,040
understandings and some of the 
dodgier companies that were 

853
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:02,240
involved. 
So from the UAE, 2 billion 

854
00:51:02,240 --> 00:51:07,960
apparently has been invested in 
the Damascus metro 26.5 

855
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:11,520
kilometres 17 stations. 
One wonders why right now that 

856
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:16,040
people have no electricity, no 
water, Are they being expected 

857
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:19,120
to celebrate the the creation of
an underground metro? 

858
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:23,560
Jordan 17,000,000 for a luxury 
hotel complex in Deir Ezzor. 

859
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:26,800
Aleppo 25,000,000 for a 
commercial complex. 

860
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:32,200
Ubarco, a company from Italy 
that has pledged 2.5 billion for

861
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:36,120
Damascus Towers project and 
Polydeath recycling and 

862
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:38,360
sustainability project. 
Now just leave that on the 

863
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:42,320
screen for a second, if you can,
Mike, because I particularly 

864
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,200
wanted to point out, so the 
Damascus Towers project, which 

865
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:51,000
is the 2.5 billion. 
So that's 20,000 apartments, 25 

866
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:56,560
floors each, 60 towers. 
Now the company Ubacco, which is

867
00:51:56,560 --> 00:52:00,480
based in Italy, was founded in 
April 2022 with a capital of 

868
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:05,360
€16,000 and an annual revenue of
209,000. 

869
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:08,400
So clearly not capable of 
fulfilling that pledge. 

870
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:13,560
And then if we look at Polydeath
2021, it was a hardware company 

871
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:18,280
which was dissolved 2 years ago 
in on the 25th of July re 

872
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:23,040
established itself claiming to 
be specialised in aviation. 

873
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:27,200
Now all of these companies are 
of course going to need external

874
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:30,640
financing, which is where this 
familiar money laundering is 

875
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:34,200
going to come in. 
And I wanted to mention at the 

876
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:37,640
same time that while all of this
is going on, this grotesque 

877
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:42,000
spectacle that Jolani and Tom 
Barrack are providing for the 

878
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:46,240
Syrian people, of course, 
yesterday I met with refugees 

879
00:52:46,240 --> 00:52:47,640
from Sweda. 
Again. 

880
00:52:47,720 --> 00:52:50,920
I've written extensively about 
that for UK column and reported 

881
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:56,240
on it, The massacre led by 
Jolani's HTS forces and his 

882
00:52:56,240 --> 00:53:01,040
tribal faction proxies. 
I met with a number of refugees,

883
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:05,760
Venezuelan Druze that have been 
effectively evacuated by the 

884
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:09,120
Venezuela embassy here, brought 
to Lebanon. 

885
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:14,040
And so while Jolani, Tombaric, 
Washington, Saudi Arabia, Qatar,

886
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:19,520
Turkey are providing this 
absolutely fraudulent spectacle 

887
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:25,840
of some kind of investment into 
a a dying sovereign Syria that 

888
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:30,400
is going to be debt enslaved, 
the stories I heard of Jolani's 

889
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:34,680
forces were horrific and 
reminiscent, of course, those 

890
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:41,120
that I heard back in 20/12/2013.
For example, children were seen 

891
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:43,840
to be carried out of their 
houses, including babies. 

892
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:48,880
They prepared boiling water. 
The children were murdered by 

893
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:54,640
putting them into boiling water.
Children were slaughtered in 

894
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:57,640
front of their parents if the 
parents didn't have the money to

895
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:01,360
pay HTS. 
Women were abducted or raped on 

896
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:06,040
the spot and then murdered. 
The desecration of properties, 

897
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:10,880
of tombs, of shrines, of entire 
villages that were razed to the 

898
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:14,200
ground. 
So while all of this is ongoing,

899
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:20,960
this this unbelievable theatre 
of bloodshed is being conducted 

900
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:24,720
by by Washington and the UK. 
We can't forget that the MI 6 

901
00:54:24,720 --> 00:54:28,440
linked operatives are in the 
presidential palace grooming 

902
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:34,600
Jolani's administration to to 
change their image for for the 

903
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,480
public. 
Meanwhile, the bloodshed 

904
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,920
continues in Syria. 
People have no money. 

905
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,760
They're living through the most 
desperate poverty that they've 

906
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:48,560
ever seen, and corruption now is
within a shadow state. 

907
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:53,160
There is no accountability 
whatsoever for Jolani's regime. 

908
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:56,280
And of course they're syphoning 
out the wealth because they know

909
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,400
that they're not going to be 
permanent. 

910
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:03,040
So Syria is effectively being 
raped and pillaged on every 

911
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:09,400
single level. 
Vanessa, I can't say thank you 

912
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:12,440
for that report because that was
quite harrowing in in many ways.

913
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:16,320
But you know that I just want 
to, I just like to address 

914
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:19,320
something that was being said in
the chat box there while you 

915
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:20,920
were speaking. 
And that was that somebody was 

916
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:23,480
saying, well, this is 
international news. 

917
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:25,880
This is not British. 
It's the UK column. 

918
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:27,440
Why aren't you covering more 
British stuff? 

919
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:30,000
And, and my point, Vanessa, is 
I'd be interested in your 

920
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:33,520
thoughts on this. 
This is British news because 

921
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:38,560
these are puppets of the British
regime and therefore this is our

922
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:42,000
responsibility in my opinion, 
and I just wanted to get your 

923
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:47,920
thoughts on that. 
I find it rather just depressing

924
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:50,520
that someone from Britain is 
saying, well, this isn't British

925
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:53,880
news when the British regime is 
responsible for what is now 

926
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:58,760
happening in the region and has 
been responsible for more than a

927
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:01,200
century. 
So I think we need to wake up to

928
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:04,200
the fact that our regime in 
Britain is utterly responsible 

929
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:07,040
for the bloodshed that is now 
happening and that bloodshed is 

930
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:10,400
not going to be contained in 
Syria because the British are 

931
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:13,320
sponsoring the Tak fairy 
elements that are conducting 

932
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:16,360
these atrocious These are 
trustees against the Syrian 

933
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:18,280
people. 
And where are these Tak fairies 

934
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:21,240
going to go in the end? 
Where are they going to go? 

935
00:56:21,240 --> 00:56:25,960
They're going to come back to 
the UK, to the EU, to the US and

936
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,160
you'll be facing them. 
So it is a British problem. 

937
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:33,360
Yes, yes, I mean, I don't think 
it was a suggestion that that it

938
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:35,320
wasn't. 
Well, anyway, we'll talk about 

939
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:39,600
more in extra because because 
that that is a really it is a 

940
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:42,480
really interesting and important
point to make. 

941
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:46,760
So, you know, thanks to thanks 
for the comment because it's 

942
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:48,880
going to start an interesting 
conversation. 

943
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:51,280
Let me let's let's finish off 
today. 

944
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:56,080
Coming back to Mark then and 
Mark some health related news. 

945
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:01,240
Absolutely. 
Mike, if I may make a 

946
00:57:01,240 --> 00:57:04,200
suggestion, we can show one of 
the two videos now and the other

947
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:06,280
one an extra, unless you want to
do differently. 

948
00:57:06,720 --> 00:57:12,120
But this first slide that I got 
here is from a kind of centrist 

949
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:16,000
political organisation called 
Veer in We're in Switzerland. 

950
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:20,400
The headline is from their 
website interview unnoticed by 

951
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,280
the public, but it's getting 
more protest. 

952
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:28,120
Switzerland is operating the 
only who WHO bio laboratory. 

953
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:32,360
And I think from there we can go
with the first primary video 

954
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:36,840
that explains the basis of this 
and what people are protesting. 

955
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:41,560
It has to do with the space 
laboratory and people's 

956
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:43,360
perceptions of what they're 
doing there. 

957
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:45,640
So let's show that first video 
if we can do that. 

958
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:53,480
A lab leak in Switzerland will 
be a major problem not just here

959
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:55,640
in Switzerland but around the 
world. 

960
00:57:56,080 --> 00:58:01,880
The Biohub PSL lab for earring 
Spiets Canton Byrne is being 

961
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:06,400
facilitated as a dual used gain 
of function facility for the 

962
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:10,360
World Health Organisation and 
there is no oversight by the 

963
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:13,040
Swiss government. 
Who has the oversight? 

964
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:15,000
Who knows what's going on up 
there? 

965
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:18,520
They don't have any 
transparency, so people are 

966
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:21,480
awakening and they want to know 
what's going on in their lab. 

967
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:26,120
My name is Christian Osh. 
I'm the president of the Swiss 

968
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:30,200
association Veer. 
I grow up here in the hills and 

969
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:33,040
the Bernie's overland. 
We're not out of touch. 

970
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:37,520
We're really connected to nature
and that makes us realise how 

971
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:41,160
much freedom really means to us.
And we do everything possible to

972
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:44,720
maintain our freedom, our 
sovereignty and especially our 

973
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:49,200
neutrality of Switzerland. 
The Swiss government is now 

974
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:51,760
allowing bio weapons on Swiss 
soil. 

975
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:58,200
And when more people find out 
the beautiful Swiss country, the

976
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:02,600
Swiss flag, the Swiss chocolate,
the Swiss cheese, it's extremely

977
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:05,640
naive because Switzerland has 
been occupied. 

978
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,840
It acts like the operation 
centre for a lot of their 

979
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:12,560
wrongdoings worldwide. 
And it is the Swiss Federal 

980
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:16,360
Council that is responsible for 
what's happening here in 

981
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:19,680
Switzerland, with obviously the 
diplomatic immunity for all 

982
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:23,000
these organisations that are 
causing a lot of havoc right 

983
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:24,840
now. 
I would say it's evil. 

984
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:29,480
And the Swiss government needs 
to stop the allowance for this 

985
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:31,440
to continue on here in 
Switzerland. 

986
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:36,680
I believe that we need to revoke
diplomatic immunity for the 

987
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:40,960
World Health Organisation and we
need to invoke the spirit of the

988
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:45,160
Swiss people for sovereignty, 
neutrality and freedom. 

989
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:53,240
Very interesting. 
Of course, it's worth noting, 

990
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,760
Mike, that there are different 
schools of thought and gain of 

991
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:59,480
function. 
Some consider viruses to be 

992
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:03,440
inert, just chaff, biological 
chaff, you might say. 

993
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:06,480
Others question the very 
existence of viruses. 

994
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:10,040
And say bacterial agents are 
more of a threat. 

995
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:13,800
At any rate, there's 
considerable concern among the 

996
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:16,480
Swiss people. 
The other video has to do with 

997
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:19,960
what Telsey Gabbard has to say 
about the broader health 

998
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:22,680
situation with regards to some 
of this. 

999
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:27,080
And I think I can basically 
conclude today and we can carry 

1000
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:30,520
on into extra a little if we 
can, but let's remind ourselves 

1001
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:33,800
too that and we can show the 
slide if you'd like, Mike, that 

1002
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:37,280
exercise Pegasus is getting 
pretty imminent here, a tier one

1003
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:41,080
exercise to take place between 
September and November this 

1004
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:43,320
year. 
One thing that's mentioned in 

1005
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:46,320
this slide that I didn't mention
three weeks ago when I first 

1006
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:50,680
reported on Exercise Pegasus and
will it mirror exercise 

1007
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:53,360
sickness? 
I believe that was before for 

1008
01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:56,600
the COVID pandemic. 
There's a local resilience 

1009
01:00:56,600 --> 01:01:00,920
forum, several local resilience 
forums, and I believe the next 

1010
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:06,480
slide after this mentions that 
and the resilience forums, the 

1011
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:08,680
listing, and we can put this in 
the show notes. 

1012
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:11,880
The listing provides lots of 
email addresses and the 

1013
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:15,720
resilience forums are made up of
local authorities, emergency 

1014
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:19,480
services, local public services,
the Environment Agency. 

1015
01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:23,760
So it provides a lot of contacts
and email addresses at this 

1016
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:27,600
website, auk government website 
that would enable concerned 

1017
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:31,520
citizens who watch UK column to 
contact these people and get 

1018
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:33,400
involved and ask lots of 
questions. 

1019
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:35,440
That's the most important thing 
at this point. 

1020
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:39,920
And we can talk later about a 
special designation that the UK 

1021
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:45,560
got from The Who that 
facilitates exercise Pegasus in 

1022
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:49,800
my opinion and related matters. 
But at any rate, Mike, Mark 

1023
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:51,680
maybe go. 
Ahead, go ahead and mention this

1024
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:53,040
because I think this is 
important. 

1025
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:55,040
So go ahead and tell us a little
bit more about this. 

1026
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:59,200
Yeah, this just came up. 
On August 7th, The Who 

1027
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:03,560
officially designated not only 
Health Canada and not only a 

1028
01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:07,720
ministry in Japan Health, Labour
and Welfare, but also the UK's 

1029
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:11,680
Medicines and Healthcare 
Products Regulatory agency, or 

1030
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:18,960
MHRA, as WHO listed authorities.
WL as World Health Organisation 

1031
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:22,400
listed Authorities, a status 
granted to national authorities 

1032
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:24,320
that meet the highest 
international regulatory 

1033
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:28,120
standards for medical products. 
With these latest designations, 

1034
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:33,720
The Who expands the growing list
of these WL as now involving 39 

1035
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:36,320
agencies across the world 
supporting faster and broader 

1036
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:40,360
access to quality assured 
medical products, particularly 

1037
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,120
in low and middle income 
countries. 

1038
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:45,320
What that really means is they 
want to make sure that any 

1039
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:48,880
country, rich or poor, 
especially poorer ones, are 

1040
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:54,520
markets for vaccines and mRNA 
technology, mRNA injections, 

1041
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:58,680
which goes along with what James
Roguski has been saying, you 

1042
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:03,440
know, to, to get access 
worldwide and establish regional

1043
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:08,200
centres worldwide to make sure 
that no, no arm is left 

1044
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:10,600
unjabbed. 
You might say, if possible, when

1045
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:12,880
they possibly declare the next 
pandemic. 

1046
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:17,440
And when you look at Exercise 
Pegasus and precedence to that 

1047
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:20,800
and the President in the US to 
the COVID pandemic, which is 

1048
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:24,320
event two O 1, will these drills
become real? 

1049
01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:26,720
And then what would another 
crackdown ensue? 

1050
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:29,240
And what those crack, would 
those crackdowns be even worse 

1051
01:03:29,240 --> 01:03:31,960
than before? 
So this is a time to be super 

1052
01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:36,240
vigilant in the UK and beyond. 
So that should do it for now. 

1053
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:38,160
Yeah, thank you very much for 
that, Mark. 

1054
01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:39,960
Thank you and thank you to 
Vanessa. 

1055
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:42,520
We got to leave the news 
programme there for today. 

1056
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:46,720
Join us if you're UK column 
member for some UK called News 

1057
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:51,760
Extra in a couple of minutes. 
But I keep totally confused by 

1058
01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:54,360
the fact that Vanessa's on today
because Patrick and Vanessa 

1059
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:57,560
swapped where Patrick goes to 
the Beautiful Days festival this

1060
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:01,600
week. 
So it is Friday and hope 

1061
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:04,080
everyone has a great weekend. 
Join us for extra if you can, 

1062
01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:07,360
but otherwise we'll see you at 
1:00 PM as usual on Monday. 

1063
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:08,160
See you then.